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jrootabega

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    Comment #49214218

    It should at least notify you and give you the opportunity to cancel the alert within a few seconds

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    Comment #49214074

    But many false positives lead to a real positive being ignored as a false positive.

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    Comment #47154199

    Correction: Summer Yue deletes Summer Yue's emails. We don't say "Russian roulette shoots man."

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    Comment #47131716

    Guess the Beastie Boys were never in the running.

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    Comment #47064197

    I should heavily qualify this by saying that I don't think the study (which I have no access to) measured it this precisely or specifically. I think it was just people reporting ro…

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    Comment #47055218

    Ha, I get it, great Angela impression.

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    Comment #47053222

    Translating from normie, sounds like 30-50g of beans, assuming a "cup" is 8 floz. and the water:coffee ratio is 15:1. Assuming Arabica, that's 450-750mg of caffeine.

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    Comment #47025996

    how disk get fragment?

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    Comment #46319194

    And if you just add them to your spam filter, it won't even work easily, because they deliberately shift around the domains and subdomains they send from every so often.

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    Comment #46223331

    I'm not knowledgeable enough to confidently verify this from the linked material, but aren't they keeping CO2 levels the same during the hypoxic periods? i.e. isn't this significan…

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    Comment #46024083

    There is no downvote. There is only flag, and people are hesitant to use it, if it's even available to them in the first place.

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    Comment #45822467

    Funnily enough, just a few weeks before that, REM released their eponymous album. Perhaps Morris was inspired by that?

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    Comment #45372452

    Yeah, it was just a creative example of the type of awful AI responses search engines, including Google, give. It tends to contradict what you say, push everything towards useless …

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    Comment #45367214

    search: "coffee is mostly water" "No, coffee is not mostly water. That appears to be a misconception based on a popular television show. Coffee is actually about 98% water."

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    Comment #45359214

    > I appreciate that. I hope you do. But I do not for one second believe the truth of it. Nor do I when I read passive-aggressive replies from Automattic on the Google Play store: "…

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    Comment #43387674

    They had to wait for additional characters to make a good guess as to whether it was Z or SE. So they thought that having your fingers already positioned close to both outcomes wou…

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    Comment #43378247

    Selling individual rolls used to be more common. I'm sure you'll still see it today in smaller stores without a dedicated aisle for toilet paper/towels. Why would they package thos…

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    Comment #43373784

    While this can be mitigated somewhat by keeping backups on hand, the card helps because it gives you a convenient record of needing to restock, which you can just drop somewhere yo…

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    Comment #43343358

    Is the noon color scheme supposed to look like Finn from Adventure Time?

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    Comment #43333120

    (George Edward Stanley, 1987)

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    Comment #43331816

    for kids, there's The Codebreaker Kids

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    Comment #43321913

    I had one of those 3D-only cards on my first computer. I didn't know about the passthrough and got pretty annoyed that my games sucked and never worked with the hardware 3D stack. …

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    Comment #43310551

    The ancestor post is neither a "Complete injustice" nor "derision" nor an "insult", and it doesn't warrant a hostile mocking reply. Its tone could have been gentler, but it wasn't …

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    Comment #43309722

    Hell, I'd say it's an 0<=N<1 because it involves subjective mood reporting, and there was no participant who was not contaminated by flaws in the methodology.